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What is bitonality?

What is bitonality? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (music) The simultaneous presence of two keys in a piece of music
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With its banjo-plucking effects, bitonality and sleazy violin portamentos sounding as weird as Charles Ives in a smoke-filled speakeasy.
Satie was in advance of his time with his love of bitonality, polytonality and non-triadic harmony to name but a few of his gravity-breaking techniques.
In Example 5, this concept is shown in a piece by Robert Starer entitled Black and White, which places the bitonality directly in the key signature.
The idiom is essentially tonal though dissonance, bitonality, and, occasionally, polytonality are liberally used.
And although Kevin Gill did what he could tomake something out of the organ part one constantly had anuneasy feeling of bitonality, even in fully accompanied passages.
Voice may also have a bitonality or diplophonia, with the perception of two different fundamental frequencies simultaneously.

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